Drinking Liberally Double Header

It’s a Drinking Liberally double header for me tonight as the Columbia City chapter meets from 6PM to 8PM at the Columbia City Theater, 4916 Rainier AVE S. (next door to Tutta Bella’s), followed by the Seattle chapter which meets tonight (and every Tuesday), 8PM onward at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E. Stop on by for some hoppy beer and hopped up conversation.

Not in Seattle? Liberals will also be drinking tonight in the Tri-Cities. A full listing of Washington’s thirteen Drinking Liberally chapters is available here.

You know, it’s a good thing that John McCain is “reticent” about talking about his time as a POW, because if he wasn’t so “reticent” we’d be airing about it every hour on the hour 24/7 and not just daily and in in every fucking ad this inevitable loser runs.

Not at all surprising. Give away a million to everyone in this country an go back a year later, and the ratio of millionaires will be the same as today, except that todays millionares would all have several million more than they started with.

Just when you thought the Bush regime’s legal incompetence couldn’t get worse, we find out his lawyers researched the infamous “torture memos” not by reading lawbooks but by watching the fictional exploits of a fictional character on TV.

It turns out Bush’s lawyers researched the legality of torture not in a law library but by watching a TV drama show.

“[T]he prime mover of American interrogation doctrine is none other than the star of Fox television’s ’24,’ Jack Bauer … the lawyers designing interrogation techniques cited Bauer more frequently than the Constitution.

” … Bauer — played by Kiefer Sutherland — was an inspiration at early ‘brainstorming meetings’ of military officials at Guantánamo in September 2002. Diane Beaver, the staff judge advocate general who gave legal approval to 18 controversial interrogation techniques including waterboarding, sexual humiliation and terrorizing prisoners with dogs, [said] Bauer ‘gave people lots of ideas.’ Michael Chertoff, the Homeland Security chief, gushed in a panel discussion on ’24’ organized by the Heritage Foundation that the show ‘reflects real life.’ John Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer who produced the so-called torture memos … cites Bauer in his book ‘War by Other Means.’ … [H]igh-ranking lawyers in the Bush administration erected an entire torture policy around the fictional edifice of Jack Bauer.”

McCain’s Math Doesn’t Add Up … Unless He Cuts Social Security And Medicare

“… McCain … speeches are peppered with pledges to get rid of earmarks (spending tagged for politicians’ pet projects). But since all earmarks add up to less than $20 billion a year, that will not yield much. For his numbers to add up, not only would discretionary spending need to be slashed from its current level of 7.6% of GDP, but spending on entitlements, such as Social Security and Medicare, would need to be cut too. If Mr McCain wants to do that, he has kept quiet about it.”

Speaking of McSame, the Straight Talk Express was here in Reno today, stumping for what few votes he could find. I nearly hit the damn bus leaving the parking lot at the Atlantis. Afterwards, I went to see Otep, whose views on McSame and his master are well, pretty plain to see and hear.

Dont forget, people. When John McCain leaves one of his four mansions to fly on his wife’s private jet to the town hall meeting where he’ll talk to you wearing his $520 Salvatore Ferragamo Pregiato Moccasins, just remember that he understands the problems of people just like you. Plus, he has a matching purse.

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